On Friday, the eight Bay Area health centers will open as Golden Gate Community Health clinics. The clinics promise to provide uninterrupted medical services and appointments, and will even have the same number: (800)967-7526 (the last four numbers stand for PLAN).

The national federation has been pretty cagey about the reasons behind the disaffiliation, but financial problems of the Golden Gate chapter seem to be behind the troubles. The federation said they plan to open new Planned Parenthood centers in the areas that Golden Gate covered.

Therese Wilson, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate’s executive vice president who is also interim chief executive, said the organization worked with the federation since February to try to keep its affiliation, but did not receive any help from the national office. Still, she said, her group has managed to reduce expenses and improve efficiencies enough to continue operations. “We’ve made the right changes and we’re on the right road, and we need to continue on that road to ensure we have a financially viable organization,” she said.

The local affiliate’s former chief executive, Dian Harrison, who went on medical leave early in the year and will not return, was featured in this video made five years ago, “Superhero for Choice,” as a condom-shooting protector of safe sex. Oddly, the condoms she shoots encase anti-abortion rights protesters and blow them up. Then she declares that everyone who needs low-cost and confidential health care services may “enter freely — without intimidation or violence.” Take a look:

And here’s another Planned Parent Golden Gate promotion featuring “Steven,” a party-loving, condom-distributing flight attendant. At the end, he tells passengers: “On behalf of Planned Parenthood Airlines, you are now free to make sweet, sweet love”: